Tithe on occasion of telesphoria
IGCyr104600
Trismegistos ID: 738568
Source Description
Support
Limestone block with on top several holes for accomodation of statues and dowel holes for adjoining another block to the left; the preserved block is broken off at right end of front face and at both ends of lower edge (0.96; 0.24;0.77).
Layout
Inscribed on front face in three columns (a, b, c) of two lines each, forming textpart i). Below is texpart ii) in one line running on the whole width.
Letters
0.03 at lines 1-2 and 5-6 and 7; 0.035 at lines 3-4; finely cut letters, with various spacing so as to have the same width at both lines of each column; slight serifs, broad eta, slightly smaller omicron, more or less slanting sigma, flattened loop of phi.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of third or beginning of second century century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1933 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , East of the Greek Theatre .
Later recorded Location
Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 inside the Sanctuary of Apollo .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1983 and again 2001 between Nicodamos' wall and the Greek theatre .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Morelli in SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 252 (no image).
Text
Apparatus
i.1
[---] [ξ]ήνα : SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
[---] ηνα
i.2 [Χαριείδε?]υς : SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
[---]
+υς
i.6 Χαριείδ̣[ευς] : SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
Χαριει
δ
also consonant with λ
[---]
French translation
[---] xèna fille de [Kharieid]ès.
Aristobôla fille de Stasis.
Hagèsidamos fils de Kharieidès.
[Untel], après avoir accompli la télesphorie, [a consacré] (ce monument) au titre de la dîme.
English translation
[---] xena daughter of [Charieid]es.
Aristobola daughter of Stasis.
Hagesidamos daughter of Charieides.
[So-and-so], after having achieved the telesphoria , [dedicated] (this monument) as a tithe.
Italian translation
[---] xena figlia di [Charieid]es.
Aristobola figlia di Stasis.
Hagesidamos figlia di Charieides.
[Il tale], dopo aver concluso la telesphoria , [ha dedicato] (questo monumento) come decima.
Commentary
There is something unclear in Morelli's explanations about the provenance. He writes that the stone was found East of the Greek Theatre and had been brought in 1960 inside the Sanctuary of Apollo. However it stood in 1983 (and still en 2001) East of the Greek theatre in vicinity of IGCyr097900, to which it was probably related in some way.
The inscription on this base is made of two parts: textpart i) is a series of captions corresponding to three statues, giving the personal names at the nominative; textpart ii) is the dedication formula.
The name of the woman at column b) is highlighted by the larger dimension of the letters and its central position. In correspondance with the multiple holes on top, it is very plausible that her statue stood in the middle and that smaller statues stood at both sides.
The damaged names may be fully or partly restituted: the father's name at column b) is easy to complete as Χαριείδης and the ending of the father's name at column a) was probably the same. If so, the mother would have been surrounded by her two children, while her husband or her father would be the dedicant. The daughter's name might be Χαριξήνα or Φιλοξήνα.
The father's name of Aristobola is also well represented in IGCyr097900, a similar base, placed in the vicinity and offering the same use of the nominative case of the persons featured upon it, followed by a full sentence mentioning the dedicant. However, only this one is dedicated as a tithe. Being somewhat later than the other, the present base was probably modelled on the former.
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